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Celltex Therapeutics Corp. has attracted attention since it was revealed Dr. Stanley Jones treated Perry with his own stem cells during back surgery in July 2011 and in follow-up appointments. Before their reinjection, Perry’s stem cells were stored and grown at Celltex.

Michael McCaul celebrated the passing of the Creating Hope Act at the third annual Childhood Cancer Summit. Under the law, companies who develop better treatments for childhood cancers will get vouchers to speed the drug approval process. …

Paul Ryan has co-sponsored federal “personhood” legislation that would declare a fertilized embryo to be a human being, which would outlaw abortion nationwide — overriding state abortion laws — and might also affect certain types of birth control.

That goes further than Romney, who says he wants to leave the abortion issue up to the states. Romney also would allow women to terminate pregnancies caused by rape or incest, exceptions that Ryan opposes.

Texas’ proposed adult stem cell regulations, up for approval this week, are under fire for circumventing the Food and Drug Administration and making the experimental therapy commercially available before it’s been proven safe and effective.

The criticism of the Texas Medical Board draft policy, developed in the aftermath of Gov. Rick Perry receiving stem cell treatment for back problems, is coming from a host of pre-eminent scientists and institutions, including the influential scientific journal Nature and the International Society for Stem Cell Research.